Re: Installing Debian on sata drive with adaptec aic-8130 controller

[Marc Blumentritt <M.Blumentritt@tu-braunschweig.de>]

Lennart Sorensen schrieb:
 > Support for the marvell chip used by that adapter was only added
> experimentally to the kernel sources about a week ago.  It was expected
> then to be rather broken.  I would not expect a working driver in a
> debian installer for another 6 months at the earliest.  Apparently
> marvell has been very hard to get any specs out of for anything, making
> writing a driver rather difficult.  Some posts seem to indicate the
> marvell chips also function very differently than anything else on the
> market making it much harder to fit into the standard framework.

Thanks for the info. I will write my hardware-vender, that when I say, I
want Linux compatible hardware, that I really mean it. I will replace
the controller. Any sugesstions for a SATA PCI controller with 4 ports?

Regards,
Marc